Wamda

Regional

Africa Code Week aims to teach 20,000 children to code in one week

Almost everybody has heard of Code.org, the American non-profit that aims to get kids to code. They’re hard to miss. In 2013, the o...

Africa code week Coding for Kids

Palestine

No electricity, no problem: Startup Grind Gaza succeeds despite obstacles

Despite difficulties, Dave McClure, right, managed to get to Gaza for its second Startup Grind event, and it was a success. (Image via Ain...

Startup Grind Gaza Dave McClure

Jordan

Do employers still care about your college degree?

Just how important is a university degree? It depends on the field of study and who you ask. Wamda posed this question to employers,...

degrees Akhtaboot Cares Initiative Job fair

Saudi Arabia

Saudi educational app for special needs users ready to launch

May Al-Oteibi, 26, is a Saudi entrepreneur who has always aspired to use technology to serve the disabled, having a mentally challenged...

Learn with May May Al-Oteibi MEMakers

U.A.E

Compareit4me closes Series A round of $3M

Compareit4me, the Dubai-based price comparison site for financial products has closed a Series A round of $3 million, lead by STC...

uae Investment Financial price comparison

Regional

A day in the life of a Facebook programmer

Facebook is one of the world’s most successful startups and - as for many tech startups - programmers are the bedrock of its...

International Programmer's Day Programmer's Day Facebook

Palestine

Startup Grind Ramallah hosts Dave McClure

It was clear at Startup Grind Ramallah on Thursday that teams matter less in comparison with the actual product or service they’re s...

Leaders Dave McClure startup grind ramallah

Egypt

Dubai classifieds platform dubizzle acquired by OLX

[Update: September 17th - Dubizzle has invested $1 million in fashion marketplace app Shedd] Dubai’s classified ads website dubizzle has b...

OLX acquisition Dubizzle

Regional

Raising the right kind of money [Opinion]

I was at last weekend’s Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, and after sitting in on two fundraising mentorship sessions it became clear that...

startup financing convertible note debt financing

Jordan

The 4 challenges facing Jordan’s IT students

Students attending the Zinc workshop. (Images via Tala El Issa) Breaking into the world of IT can be tough for anyone, but in a region...

Superiors robotics MEMakers

Lebanon

What we learned: Mix N’ Mentor Beirut

Even the most amazing of ideas need a little help. (Images via Wamda with Sam Fakhoury) During our Mix N’ Mentor Beirut we gained s...

Choueiri Group Diwanee Y Venture Partners

Regional

Strategy, not technology, drives digital transformation [Infographic]

It shouldn’t surprise anybody, but companies with coherent digital strategies do better than those focusing on individual technologies, a...

digital adoption MIT Sloan Management Review deloitte

U.A.E

Overhauling MENA's biodiesel industry [Q&A]

Karl Feilder believes he’s designed the first biodiesel system in the world that really works, and is willing to explain down to the...

Neutral Fuels Karl Feilder biofuel

Saudi Arabia

What you should know about Saudi’s social media behavior

A screenshot from the video created along with the TOP report Saudi Arabia is still growing into a market that regional and global tech...

TOP Academy the online project TOP

Regional

Zomato raises $60M round

Restaurant review app Zomato has raised a $60 million round, led by Singapore investment company Temasek, and will use some of those...

zomato ifood.jo uae

Jordan

Jordan's windy solution [Infographic]

When it comes to natural resources, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is poor. According to the World Bank they import over 90 percent...

Taqetna Green Watts Wind Farms

U.A.E

HR software Beneple acquired 8 months after launch

Putting the fun back into HR admin. When HR management startup, Beneple announced this week that they were acquired by a regulated...

Acqui-hire Health Insurance Beneple

Lebanon

Marketplace Edition pulls in the entrepreneurs for Mix N’ Mentor Beirut

Getting to know you. Mix N' Mentor Beirut kicks off. (Images Wamda with Sam Fakhoury) Not too far from the location of recent...

ElementN Diwanee term sheets

U.A.E

Ro’Ya: Developing the UAE’s female entrepreneurs

2015 applicants attend a Ro'Ya workshop. (Images via Ro'Ya) Women are driving entrepreneurship in the UAE, and the people behind the...

Dubai Business Women Council Baby Arabia VentureFin

Regional

How to attract and retain talent [Opinion]

People are arguably the single most important component of any venture. With the proliferation of technology startups in the region,...

johnny matta human resources talent

U.A.E

A new addition to MENA's hardware facelift

When Prashant Gulati (also known as PK) was 10 he asked his father for a carpenter’s kit. In those days child-friendly kits wouldn’t hav...

The Assembly MEMakers Maker space

U.A.E

Global Innovation Summit: embracing change is key to growth

The busy crowds at registration were indicative of what was ahead. (Image via Global Innovation Summit) The Global Innovation Summit 2015,...

Maghreb

From France to the Maghreb: why some Maghrebi entrepreneurs return to the homeland

This view does make a good argument for Tunisia. (Image via West East South North) Sure, many Tunisians and Moroccans have...

quality of life healthy morocco

Iraq

Iraq's main maker: Nawres Arif

Nawres Arif taught himself digital 3D modelling from a photocopied manual, years before he had a computer. He set up Basra’s first...

profile Nawres Arif Basra

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